Re: 5.0 DP2 fixit.flp woes

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Evans
I've run a few more tests on the floppy drive, especially on Windows NT I realise that the errors point to a faulty drive so I have a new one on order. It has not arrived yet. I'm not yet convinced that the drive is at fault. To summarise, I get errors on some of the installation floppies if acce

Re: 5.0 DP2 fixit.flp woes

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Evans
Further to this problem, I booted CURRENT- 20 October 2002 and mounted the fixit floppy. Trying "tar cvf test /mnt" gave the usual errors as before. Mounting the fixit.flp as a memory disk using mdconfig -a -t vnode -f fixit.flp -u 4 mount -oro /dev/md4 /mnt and trying tar as before gave no erro

Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Evans
REPOST, previous message may have failed to get through. I put -z as an illegal option in /boot.config with the intention of disabling autoboot. The prompt is now displayed, but it does not allow any keyboard input and does not proceed any further. (*** don't try this unless you have a way of re

5.0 DP2 fixit.flp woes

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Evans
The fixit.flp from the 5.0 DP2 cdrom appears to be unusable. When I attempt to use it after booting from kern.flp it comes up with errors of the form: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 2528 of 2528-2530 (ST0 40 \ ST1 4 ST2 10 cyl 70 hd 0 sec 9) accompanied by ominous clicking noises from the flo

Re: boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-12 Thread Dave Evans
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Evans) writes: > : At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console > : and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you

Re: cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap part

2003-01-11 Thread Dave Evans
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Friday 10 January 2003 20:46, John Baldwin a crit : > [SNIP] > > > > > > I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a > > > while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted

boot2 no longer displays a prompt

2003-01-11 Thread Dave Evans
At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you to change the drive and partition of the loader program, e.g. ad(0,e)/boot/loader. At least that's how it used to work. Nowadays, judging from my current of O

cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap partition

2003-01-10 Thread Dave Evans
My current installation is this: ad0s3a / 500MB ad0s3e 500MB ad0s3b 2000MB ad0s3f /mountpoint1 5000MB ad0s3g /mountpoint2 1MB ad0s3h /mountpoint3 4MB I have -Current on ad0s3a an